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A little more about your role…

The Associate, Healthcare Strategy and Planning (HS+P) is a key role within the Lexica Healthcare Strategy & Planning team. In conjunction with the Director and other colleagues you will help achieve the overall business plan to grow and develop strategic healthcare planning as a leading-edge offering to external clients, including NHS organisations and private sector clients in the UK and overseas.

The role is full-time, client facing, and you will be expected to be a key leader within the HS+P team in developing healthcare strategy and planning expertise, processes and procedures to ensure a quality assured service delivery.

You will be responsible for the delivery and performance of healthcare strategy and planning advisory services of varying breadth and scope, managing those projects, and for leading teams on major commissions.
You will be expected to contribute to an annual new business development target in relation to the development of a portfolio of consultancy clients. You will also contribute to preparing tender responses and delivering presentations for new business opportunities.

Strategic healthcare planners with a clinical or design background, and healthcare planning experience, preferably including application of Hospital 2.0 guidance, are invited to apply.

• Expertise: you have extensive knowledge of health services and or health facilities gained either through clinical practice, through working in other roles within health providers or as an architect or other professional contributing to healthcare projects. You will undertake technical inputs as required for individual projects including - but not limited to - strategic analysis, demand and capacity modelling, models of care, clinical and functional briefing, schedules of accommodation and design reviews. Support the training of new members of the team as the business grows.
• Agility: you will support the delivery of a wide range of projects related clinical and operational strategy development, clinical and operational health services and facilities planning, employing tools and methods developed by Lexica and developing improved methods and tools.
• Interpersonal skills: you will act as the client relationship manager for individual clients and account manage issues for existing and new clients within a portfolio. You will account manage a portfolio of clients and support expansion of our client base.
• Facilitation skills: you will lead clinical stakeholder engagement sessions and manage engagement programmes.
• Excellent writing skills: you will be responsible for writing reports, briefs, and contributions to business cases, as well as peer reviewing texts by colleagues for accuracy and quality.
• Data analytics skills: you will employ models to assess health service needs and demands at various levels and scales.
• Creativity and solutions focus: you will help clients investigate the needs of their services, develop solutions, review and assess options. You will participate in the development of service models and their quality assurance.
• Work with clients and project teams ensure that proposals for investment take into account productivity gains and facilitate transformation in service delivery.
• Natural curiosity and ability to apply rigour to evidence reviews: you will keep abreast of trends and research healthcare planning topics and establish the approach to investigating key lines of enquiry arising out of projects. You will contribute to thought leadership in our field.
• Openness and curiosity: you will contribute to projects in all parts of the globe, developing and understanding of local cultures and practices. You will help share best practice observations across regions and deliver healthcare strategy and planning solutions tailored to local needs, practices and priorities.
• Spirit of collaboration: you will foster multi-disciplinary collaboration across the HS+P team and beyond, help your colleagues to manage the team’s workload and in developing processes and procedures to provide a quality assured service for clients.
• Organisational skills: you will manage project budgets, fees invoicing, as well as project delivery i.e. inputs into projects from identification of objectives and contribute as a team member to larger commissions. You will be responsible for monitoring personal inputs, as well as those of a project team to ensure delivery within project budgets.
• You will contribute to new business development and bid and tender preparation
• As part of the HS+P team, you will contribute to the Health and Life Sciences Advisory business target.